Buying an ereader: Kindle, nook or Sony Pocket Reader

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Hey everyone! I’m probably going to be buying an ereader for Christmas and have narrowed it down to the nook, Kindle or Sony Pocket Reader. But I keep debating over them and thought I’d see what the users have to say.

Amothea says that the Sony Pocket Reader supports collections and has excellent sorting abilities:
My Supernatural collection has over 300 stories but I can within the collections sort by date, author, title, and etc. And once I have the title or author selected it gives me a list A-Z so I can jump to the author at the end very quickly.
Do the Kindle or Nook do anything similar, like support the tags from Calibre? I prefer the look and feel of the nook and Kindle, and they are less expensive than the Sony, but this feature is excellent.

　
Kindle: I REALLY like the long battery life and light weight of the 3G but I have a few questions.

1. I think I heard that fics uploaded to the Kindle from Calibre can be tagged and the Kindle will display those tags and the related ebooks, but I’d like that to be confirmed.
2. Can you browse the web on the Kindle? I think I’d really use that feature for finding new fic that I want to put on the device, and I know the nook can do it.

　
Nook: I LOVE the ability to add extra storage, and to browse the web. I think I’d use the web browsing to find new fic often.

1. Does the nook (black and white) have the ability to create My Shelves like the nook color? Can you sort through books in a collection by author, title, ect?


Is there anything I need to know, good or bad, about the devices? I think I’m leaning towards the nook, but I’m still not sure. I’ve got more thoughts about ereaders here.

Comments

[pslasher.livejournal.com]

I agree that Amazon has the right to decide what to sell. But I don't think they have the right to remove content after they have sold it! They aren't going to come to your house and take back the paperback you bought, so they shouldn't have the right to do the same with your digital content. I also think that if they are going to sell something, they have the responsibility to accurately display/give access to that content. Otherwise just don't sell it. Pick one or the other.

All that being said, I still went with a Kindle because of battery life, light weight and low book prices. I'm hoping that I won't have any problems, because I think the Kindle is excellent.

Just out of curiosity, what software do you use to remove the restrictions?

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Withdrawing sold contents is not cool. But again, as far as I know, this only happened once, and it was not Amazon who wanted it, it was the publisher. Amazon has removed books from sale after that, but has stated that bought content will not be taken back again. However, you will not be able to download it again. The problem is really not the bookstores, its the rightowners, like it is with music, except there the rightowners own the whole chain of distribution, a deplorable situation.
I found this for removing DRM from E-pub:
http://i-u2665-cabbages.blogspot.com/2009/02/circumventing-adobe-adept-drm-for-epub.html
You need to have Adobe Digital Editions in order to download the epub of course, and install a software called Python as well. Then you run this retrieval script which you only need to do once on one pc, and then you just run that decryption script every time you want to decrypt a file. Not exactly quick and easy, but once you have done it all, removing the DRM is done in a minute. Then I use Calibre to convert it to mobi.

[pslasher.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the link. I don't know if I'll use it but I appreciate the option.